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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We asked dozens of librarians about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say.
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Returning to this thread with the latest Patreon-only ep of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social and it hit me that there is a very obvious way to further "restorative justice" for the victim at Cornell that goes after systems and culture rather than individuals and it is banning frats on campus.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
I should probably do something to … update this. Or make it more accessible. Or something lol medium.com/@chanda/deco...
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Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/10/2026
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. buff.ly/7tKf5r4
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Mississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank Says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/09/2026
Check it out: Not one but TWO Democratic governors recently spoke out against the party abandoning trans rights. Plus Cheryl Reeve continues to be a stand out ally at the WNBA and a lawsuit confronts the impact of Trump's discriminatory policies in HIV/AIDS care. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democratic Governors, WNBA Coach Defend Trans People in Sport - Assigned Media
Leading Off: Reagan appointed judge defends trans Americans, WNBA coach Cheryl Reeve defends trans athletes, and Governors Gretchen Whitmer and Andy Beshear both spoke out in favor of Democrats contin...
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m so sick of everybody and the racism and the sexism and how it’s destroying fun deadline.com/2026/09/ride...
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'Ride Or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season (Exclusive)
'Ride Or Die' has been canceled By Prime Video after one season. The Octavia Spencer & Hannah Waddingham series is shopped By Paramount TV Studios.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You have to understand and connect before you can (effectively) challenge. And then, yes, you can introduce evidence that contradicts their belief once you’ve built that trust and can help them mert whatever need is driving their belief in a different way.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Haven't people been talking about a just transition since before Paris/2015? Weird to see it presented like this is some new thing that hasn't been addressed yet. (Of course o.p. is right that fossil fuels leads to its own trouble, including climate catastrophe and global instability.)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two things it’s hard to convey if you weren’t alive back then: the extremity of hysteria, nationalism and Islamophobia the attack prompted, and how efforts to capture this can inadvertently obscure how Islamophobic things already were.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When they try to make you apologize for something like it’s wrong shameful, you neutralize them by tripling down. You won’t apologize; it’s offensive to imply there’s anything to apologize for. You won’t express shame; how dare someone imply this is even worthy of comment, let alone shameful
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s happening. 292 million birds take off tonight. Bigger than Wednesday's wave, and this time it is over the Ohio Valley. Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati, Nashville, Birmingham. Turn off the porch and outside lights, tonight. Step outside after 10 and listen
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My number one rule about culture writing is that craft cannot compensate for contempt. If you hate the people, you cannot write about their culture. Apropos of nothing.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 06/09/2026
People of color are disproportionately affected by California’s restrictions on reunification services for formerly incarcerated parents. 11.4 percent of Black children in the state have an incarcerated parent, compared to 1.8 percent of white children.
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California Could Give Formerly Incarcerated Parents a Chance to Get Their Kids Back - Bolts
People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wrote this in Jan 2025; I think it holds up www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
With this in mind, the unwillingness or inability of America’s governing institutions to make use of the available constitutional tools takes on an additional significance. It is asking too much to hope that everyday citizens will be able to, on their own, closely track the decay of democratic norms and protections and formulate well-thought-through opinions on which presidential candidate is best positioned to protect them. It may be asking too much to expect that voters will choose rationally at all. (Readers may be familiar with a paper by Bartels and his co-author Christopher Achen arguing that Woodrow Wilson lost his home state of New Jersey in his 1916 reelection campaign not because of disagreement with Wilson’s policies among the state’s residents, but because of a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey Shore.) 

Rather, it is the responsibility of politicians and other powerful actors—like attorneys general and Supreme Court justices—to use their knowledge and influence to maintain the integrity of the constitutional structure. That responsibility will weigh heavier during Trump’s second term. Whether these institutions can measure up to it this time around is a different question.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026
it is the same story everywhere. young men convinced by their phones that the reason they are unhappy is that they don’t live in the imaginary utopian ethnostate they think existed before they were born
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Operation Midway Blitz, one year later www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/06/c...
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Operation Midway Blitz, one year later: A changed Chicago forges on after the resistance
For 64 days, the federal government carried out a militarized immigration enforcement operation under the guise of making Chicago safer. A year later, why do people still feel so unsafe?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....
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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a canned response that is tried and tested. Allege that reactions to threats against labor & democracy by means of an industry leveraging tech “innovation” to hollow out and immiserate both are emotional and irrational.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026
If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
I think it’s cool how “this toaster might electrocute you” or “these brakes don’t always work” is acceptable in consumer products because it’s software.
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Claude can help manage your email inbox, but there are some risks involved - Engadget
Giving Claude access to your inbox can be helpful, but don't give it too much power. Allowing the AI to send emails without your approval could create problems.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You might think it's cool and fun to be a natural conduit to the afterlife but trust me you do not wish to spend your days with the ghosts of Louis Pasteur and Upton Sinclair both screaming "No! NO!!!" as the ghosts of Marx and Engles smugly chuckle "Told ya so lol saw it comin a mile away"
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026
If you live in an area that has pockets of immigrants, and you think nothing is happening with ICE, you are probably wrong. I've been hearing about things happening EVERYWHERE right now.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/08/2026
We could solve a lot of things by: * treating capital gains as ordinary income * treating certain kinds of loans backed with securities as collateral as a realization event
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And now, half of a small sampling of the political stuff in Creative Activities: more than one "Come Back With A Warrant" cross-stitches, more than one doll of MPR'S Sam Strooza valiantly reporting in her bathrobe and slippers.
An adorable cartoony cross-stitch of a house with cute trees, colorful balloons, and hearts. Between the hearts it says "Come back with a warrant".A cross-stitched wreath of blue and purple flowers with green foliage, presented in an embroidery hoop covered in lavender gingham. In the center it says "Come back with a warrant."A small crocheted doll of a woman in a bathrobe and slippers, holding a phone.A knit (I think) doll with yarn hair, a separately knit bathrobe, and slippers, holding a toy phone. The photo taken of reporter Strooza is reproduced next to the doll.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
Screenshotted excerpt from a conversation transcript, reading as follows

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject the idea that we wound up with this wretched administration in part because of the backlash to the excesses of woke, especially alienating young men, who were told they were the problem, just generally speaking.

Bouie: [this line is highlighted] I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. This administration was elected in 2024. At peak woke, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing kente cloth, Democrats won a trifecta, right? At the--
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah it needs to be ripped out. The corrupted institutions all need to be physically and conceptually rebuilt. You can't reform them. That's part of why I keep advocating for parallel institutions right now
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And the Congress that refuses to do its job.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/08/2026
If you're in the Denver area and you're outdoorsy, please consider getting and using a bear bell. There have been multiple sightings of bears EXTREMELY low down (my husband just saw one yesterday when on the peaks to plains trail). The weather this year has made food scarce at higher elevations.
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